METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK

METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; 2 Boys, Skateboarding, Are Hit by Train

Published: October 14, 1998

ISLAND PARK—
Two 13-year-old boys were critically injured yesterday while skateboarding across railroad tracks on Long Island, the police said.

Christopher Cavanaugh and Max Mooney, both from Long Beach, were struck by a Long Island Rail Road equipment train as they skateboarded through closed crossing gates and across the train tracks at Long Beach Road and Sheridan Boulevard, said Detective Lawrence Stevens of the Nassau County Police Department.

Both teen-agers were airlifted from the location. One was taken to Winthrop-University Hospital in Mineola and the other to Nassau County Medical Center in East Meadow. Both were listed in critical condition, Detective Stevens said.

The accident occurred at 5:30 P.M. and closed the Long Beach branch of the railroad in both directions for about two hours, said a railroad spokesman.